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Hey, everyone!
We’re a day late this week, but it’s for a good cause- I just finished working on the cover illustration for a children’s book- the third in the series that I’ve done the art for. Now that that’s all ready to go to the publisher, I can post this page. And I have! You’re likely looking at it now, reader. Thanks for always wandering back to this little corner of the internet to follow our story. I appreciate that you’ve stuck around- this comic means a lot to me, and it means a lot to my writers (Elle and Vox); it always troubles me when my work gets in the way of my passions, but bills must be paid before magic is made! (Rhymes are important.)
Speaking of Elle and Vox, we all had a splendid weekend together about two weeks ago, chatting about wizard politics and world building, and writing the next chapter.
This leads me to an idea we came up with regarding our update schedule for Finite: rather than dragging out the chapters week to week over years (yeah, I’m well aware that the pacing on this is a little more tortoise than hare), we’ve considered following our witchy hearts and the call of the seasons. Each equinox or solstice we would release a large batch update (so, an entire chapter, more or less!), giving readers a great deal more material to consume at once and allow me to work more easily around my paid work schedule. What say you, fair witches, wizards, and muggles that have somehow broken through our WordPress charms?

He’s been through so much and he’s not even at Hogwarts yet. The varying degrees of disgust and exasperation on this child’s face, I swear… LOL
Amaryllis is just trying to keep things light! ( Good luck to her with that!!) -A

Glew

Re – blogpost
I personally prefer consistent weekly updates to batch updates. Then I know that I can check back every week and there will be an update.
But if the the updates are more rare (maybe once a month?) I would probably forget to check back. Or maybe I would check back and there wouldn’t be an update yet because it is actually 2 months or whatever and I would possibly give up. Maybe check back in half a year to see if the comic is stil alive. And then I would have forgotten what is going on in the story….

Though on the other hand, Order of the Stick has pretty erratic update schedules and I still follow it….

So I prefer weekly updates. but if that is too hard for you because of work, I understand.
If your only worry is that it is slow, take inspiration from EarthSongSaga comic. It was once a week update for years and she finished. and I followed it for many years and it was fun and it was a great journey.

An other example is Runewriters. It is also 1/week and the story is moving slowly but steadily. But there are many others.

Aww, Glew! Thank you for your thoughtful answer! With work lately, it’s hard to keep things up week-to-week and I figured rather than be totally wishy-washy with posting, it’d be better to give more at once so I could schedule the pages for myself more reasonably…. but with regards to missing out on updates.. would it be useful to have something like a newsletter so we could send an alert when an update is available? -A

Glew

I guess that could work too. Or if you can do something like “updates on the 2nd week on every month” or something. So readers would still know when to check back? Or if in the blogpost you could give an outline like “it looks like next update might be ready around ….ish”

I dunno….

ultimate_weirdo

OHMYGOSH YOU’RE BACK AND i DIDN’T EVEN KNOW!

In any case what works works for you in terms of schedules though it would be good for you to advertise far and wide such a huge update as well.

In any case a dead rat is definitely a good idea for a portkey.

It’s not something anyone would want to pick up or bother with at least or take it far away (at most probably burying it very nearby and leaving very quickly). I mean I work outdoors and inevitably a part of my work can be rubbish collection on the odd occasion so I almost squint looking back at the books about how portkeys would just be some rubbish no muggle would bother to pick up. If I see a stray crisp packet I will be taking it away.

Woops.

If HP was real I would have possibly ended up being obliviated god knows how many times. Probably at least once. I would be more likely to accidentally stumble on one then most.